After Job spent seven days in silence with his three friends, there came a time when this upright soul succumbed and cursed the day he was born.

 In poetic form, Job cursed that day, declaring:  Let the day perish wherein I was born; and the Night in which it was said there is a child conceived.  Let that day be darkness, letnot God regard it from above. Neither let the sun come upon it.  Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it. Let the day be purged from the calendar and never see the eyelids of dawn.  Let no joyful noise come from that night.

Job’s outburst raises the question: Did Satan (or Ha’Satan)  prevail?  While Job did not curse the Almighty, Jobdid curse His wisdom;  as the Lord made such decisions as when Job would be born and the tribulations he would face.

Regardless, Job is not cursing the world. He does not wish to destroy everything around him in a fit of wrath. He will contend with what is before him, bringing us through his suffering  in a soul-bearing exercise. 

Job calls for those engaged in divination, such as those who would rouse Leviathan (a reference to Canaanite mythology), play their trade and curse his day!

 Job voices how he wishes the doors of his mother’s womb had been shut and to have perished within or shortly after birth.  He wishes to have long ago reached the destination of stillness. Such would have been a welcome alternative from his suffering. He yearns to be where slave and prisoner are no longer subject to the whips and shouts of the taskmaster.

Further, Job proclaims the desire to be among the past Kings and Counsellors of the earth, who built structuresof magnificence that ultimately turned to desolate places, and now lie equal with their subjects.  He brings up the idea,almost as an aside, that we will experience the idle rest of death for a lot longer than we will be active on this earth. 

Job is facing a hellish existence.  He ponders why should the Lord give light/life to those bitter in soul.  He laments how God allows him to continue when the Lord’s Way has been hidden, after he had walked in it all his life.   He also realizes he lost the Godly hedge of protection he once had.  He is lamenting a perceived broken relationship with God. The loss of his spiritual estate weighs tremendously on Job.  

Job closes out the chapter by noting,  For the thing I greatlyfeared has come upon me.  He realized all he had was bestowed on him by God and could be gone in a moment.  He was not naïve, but is explains that he made the proper sacrifices and held the proper reverence, yet tragedy still came.   While Job's sacrificial walk was an unsuccessful attempt to keep such suffering at bay, Job will come to learn that his ordeal is ultimately for a greater, even if it remains unknown,purpose.